The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Innovation is a junior position in the Department of Health and Social Care in the British government. It is currently held by The 5th Baron Bethell, MP, who took the office on 9 March 2020.
Responsibilities The minister is responsible for the following:
COVID-19: supply (medicines and testing) treatments and vaccines long-term health impacts test and trace: testing, trace, technology life sciences medicines research health protection anti-microbial resistance global health security international diplomacy and relations data and technology rare diseases NHS security management, including cyber security blood and transplants and organ donation
List of ministers Name Portrait Entered office Left office Political party Notes The Baroness Hooper28 July 198914 April 1992ConservativeParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health The Baroness Cumberlege14 April 19922 May 1997ConservativeParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health The Baroness Jay of Paddington 2 May 1997 27 July 1998 LabourMinister of State for Health The Baroness Hayman 28 July 1998 29 July 1999 LabourParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health The Lord Hunt of Kings Heath 1 January 1998 17 March 2003 LabourParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health The Lord Warner 13 June 2003 4 January 2007 LabourMinister of State for National Health Services Delivery The Lord Hunt of Kings Heath 5 January 2007 28 June 2007 LabourMinister of State for National Health Services Reform The Lord Darzi of Denham 29 June 2007 21 July 2009 LabourParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health The Baroness Thornton 19 February 2010 11 May 2010 LabourParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health The Earl Howe 17 May 2010 11 May 2015 ConservativeParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health The Lord Prior of Brampton 14 May 2015 21 December 2016 ConservativeParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for National Health Services Productivity The Lord O'Shaughnessy 21 December 2016 31 December 2018 ConservativeParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health The Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford 10 January 2019 13 February 2020 ConservativeParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Life Science The Lord Bethell 9 March 2020 Incumbent ConservativeParliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Innovation
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